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Washington Post:
Trump federal budget 2018: Massive cuts to the arts, science and the poor — President Trump on Thursday will unveil a budget plan that calls for a sharp increase in military spending and stark cuts across much of the rest of the government including the elimination of dozens …
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Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
Trump's budget calls for seismic disruption in medical and science research — President Trump's budget calls for a seismic disruption in government-funded medical and scientific research. The cuts are deep and broad. — They also go beyond what many political observers expected.
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Vox and Common Dreams
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Mulvaney justifies budget: We can't ask a coal miner to pay for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — As they fleshed out the budget blueprint released Thursday morning by the White House, Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney said officials from the administration …
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Bloomberg, Washington Post, BillMoyers.com, Daily Kos, CNBC and The Week
New York Times:
Donald Trump Budget Slashes Funds for E.P.A. and State Department — WASHINGTON — President Trump's budget blueprint for the coming fiscal year would slash the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 percent and cut State Department spending by a similar amount in a brash upending …
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Vox, Daily Kos, Washington Post, Death and Taxes, Outside the Beltway, Talking Points Memo, Reuters, BizPac Review, Politico, Grist and ewg.org
Benjamin Locke / Occupy Democrats:
Trump Just Announced Plan To End ‘Meals On Wheels’ For Seniors
Trump Just Announced Plan To End ‘Meals On Wheels’ For Seniors
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New York Times, Daily Kos and Vox
Elaine Lies / Reuters:
Tillerson says State Department spending ‘simply not sustainable’
Tillerson says State Department spending ‘simply not sustainable’
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Talking Points Memo
Stephanie Simon / STAT:
Trump budget calls for slashing biomedical and science research funding
Trump budget calls for slashing biomedical and science research funding
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The Atlantic and Washington Post
Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump to release ‘hard power budget’ with cuts to State Dept, EPA
Trump to release ‘hard power budget’ with cuts to State Dept, EPA
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Washington Post and New York Magazine
The Forward:
EXCLUSIVE: Nazi-Allied Group Claims Top Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka As Sworn Member — Sebastian Gorka, President Trump's top counter-terrorism adviser, is a formal member of a Hungarian far-right group that is listed by the U.S. State Department as having been “under the direction …
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Daily Kos, The Week, Mediaite, The Times of Israel and Raw Story
Fox News:
Trump says he will submit evidence of wiretapping to House committee ‘very soon’ — President Trump discussed his tweeted accusation that President Obama ordered “wires” at Trump Tower tapped during last year's presidential campaign in an exclusive interview with Fox News' “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Wednesday.
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Daily Wire, Raw Story, Hot Air, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Gateway Pundit, AOL and Joe.My.God.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Trump to Tucker Carlson: “I know” counties that voted for me will lose under the Republican health plan
Trump to Tucker Carlson: “I know” counties that voted for me will lose under the Republican health plan
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ABC News, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Moderate Voice
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Acknowledges Repeal Bill Wouldn't Be Great For His Supporters
Trump Acknowledges Repeal Bill Wouldn't Be Great For His Supporters
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ThinkProgress and The Daily Caller
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
McDonald's tweets to Trump: ‘You are actually a disgusting excuse of a President’ — McDonald's' in a tweet on its corporate account called President Trump “a disgusting excuse of a President” on Thursday morning. — The tweet, which was briefly pinned to the top of the account before being deleted …
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Politico, Axios, Althouse and CBS Philly
Nivea Serrao / EW.com:
Chelsea Clinton announces new picture book, She Persisted — Count Chelsea Clinton among the many people whom Elizabeth Warren inspired when she refused to be silenced in the Senate. — Clinton, the daughter of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former U.S. President Bill Clinton …
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Clinton Ally Says Smoke, But No Fire: No Russia-Trump Collusion — Former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell, who endorsed Hillary Clinton and called Donald Trump a dupe of Russia, cast doubt Wednesday night on allegations that members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.
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Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller and Political Wire
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
2 Federal Judges Rule Against Trump's Latest Travel Ban — A federal judge in Hawaii issued a nationwide order Wednesday evening blocking President Trump's ban on travel from parts of the Muslim world, dealing a stinging blow to the White House and signaling that Mr. Trump will have to account …
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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Federal judge blocks new Trump travel ban
Federal judge blocks new Trump travel ban
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Mashable, Death and Taxes, Balloon Juice, TheBlaze and CBS Baltimore
J. D. Vance / New York Times:
Why I'm Moving Home — COLUMBUS, Ohio — In recent months, I've frequently found myself in places hit hard by manufacturing job losses, speaking to people affected in various ways. Sometimes, the conversation turns to the conflict people feel between the love of their home and the desire to leave in search of better work.
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Althouse
Rich Lowry / Politico:
How the GOP Crackup Happens — Less than two weeks after the unveiling of the GOP Obamacare replacement, the party is already staring into the abyss. — The bill has had the worst rollout of any major piece of legislation in memory, and failure is very much an option.
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Vox, Washington Examiner and Balloon Juice
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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Trump Aides Are Privately Blaming The Health Care Bill's Problems On Paul Ryan
Trump Aides Are Privately Blaming The Health Care Bill's Problems On Paul Ryan
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New York Magazine, Hot Air and Washington Examiner
Matt Fuller / The Huffington Post:
Conservatives Demand Changes On Health Care Bill As GOP Leaders Sound Shaky
Conservatives Demand Changes On Health Care Bill As GOP Leaders Sound Shaky
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Washington Post and New York Magazine
CNBC:
600+ companies are bidding to build Trump's ‘border wall’ — including one from Mexico — More than 600 businesses want in on the action with President Donald Trump's “border wall” — including one from Mexico. And a by-the-numbers CNBC analysis of those companies reveals a wide variety of owners and other details.
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Washington Post and Axios
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Republicans skeptical about paying for wall as Trump releases budget
Republicans skeptical about paying for wall as Trump releases budget
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CNN, Political Wire and Business Insider
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Obama chief of staff: ‘The president cannot order a wiretap’ … Former President Barack Obama — 's chief of staff on Thursday pushed back against President Trump's wiretapping allegations. — “The president cannot order a wiretap, president does not order a wiretap, the president did not order a wiretap,” Denis McDonough
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump defends claim that Obama wiretapped his phones
Trump defends claim that Obama wiretapped his phones
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ABC News, Political Wire and The Hill
Sam Knight / The Guardian:
Operation London Bridge: the secret plan for the days after the Queen's death — She is venerated around the world. She has outlasted 12 US presidents. She stands for stability and order. But her kingdom is in turmoil, and her subjects are in denial that her reign will ever end.
Michael Paulson / New York Times:
Justin Trudeau Brings Ivanka Trump to Broadway Show on Welcoming Outsiders — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose emphasis on welcoming refugees has been at odds with the harsher stance of the Trump administration, on Wednesday night brought Ivanka Trump to a Broadway show …
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Alastair Jamieson / NBC News:
Justin Trudeau Warns Trump About NAFTA Plan, Says Deal Is Good for U.S. Jobs
Justin Trudeau Warns Trump About NAFTA Plan, Says Deal Is Good for U.S. Jobs
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Washington Times
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Increasing Significance of the Decline of Men — At one end of the scale, men continue to dominate. — In 2016, 95.8 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs were male and so were 348 of the Forbes 400. Of the 260 people on the Forbes list described as “self-made,” 250 were men.
Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump approval slips, even as more feel economy improving — Voters think President Trump is ahead of most previous presidents on fulfilling campaign promises, and the most voters in more than a decade see an improving economy. Yet that isn't enough to put the president's job rating …
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Business Insider, Washington Post, The Hill, The Daily Caller, AOL, Hot Air, Political Wire and Morning Consult
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Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Geert Wilders Falls Short as Wary Dutch Scatter Their Votes — THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The far-right politician Geert Wilders fell short of expectations in Dutch elections on Wednesday, gaining seats but failing to persuade a decisive portion of voters to back his extreme positions …
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Jon Henley / The Guardian:
GreenLeft proves to be big winner in Dutch election
GreenLeft proves to be big winner in Dutch election
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AOL, France 24, CNN, Balloon Juice and Little Green Footballs
Amanda Whiting / Washingtonian:
Trump Places Personal Call To Tomi Lahren, Thanking Her After Hannity Appearance — Turns out, if you want a personal phone call from the President of the United States, say something nice about him on Hannity. That's precisely what Tomi Lahren did on February 7, when she appeared …
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Mediaite and New York Magazine
BuzzFeed:
How Trump's Lawyer Placed A Big Casino Bet That Left Dozens Empty-Handed — Years before Trump's candidacy, Michael D. Cohen backed a different kind of venture: a gambling cruise that stiffed employees and vendors, and blew off many of the ensuing lawsuits. — The Atlantic sailed